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Mathematics & Statistics St Andrews The Royal Society Isaac Newton Institute Here’s a great stamp honoring Wiles and his proof from the Czech Republic in 2000 …
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Our Mathematician of the Day is living legend Sir Andrew Wiles The Royal Society
He is best known for having proved Fermat's Last Theorem in 1995 Isaac Newton Institute . Awarded the Wolf Prize, the Shaw Prize, the Clay Research Award and the Abel Prize.
mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wi…
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On this day in 1661 Robert Hooke's first paper on capillary action was read to the 'Society for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematical Experimental Learning'. He showed that the narrower the tube, the higher water rose in it. A year later the Society became The Royal Society
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Our (first) Mathematician of the Day #motd is Ehrenfried Tschirnhaus who worked on the solution of equations and the study of curves. He is best known for the transformation which removes the term of degree n-1 from an equation of degree n.
mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ts…
Congratulations to our good friends Apala Majumdar MathsStats@Strath and Jonathan Fraser Mathematics & Statistics St Andrews on their very well deserved fellowships Royal Society of Edinburgh